Elizabeth Warren stumps in Springfield, Palmer, Ware and Amherst

The Republican / Dave Roback02-18-12-Springfield-Staff Photo by Dave Roback-Candidate for the United States Senate Elizabeth Warren talks with ward five caucus chair Leon Moultrie at the Mill Pond School in Springfield on Saturday morning. In the backround is State Senator James Welch D-West Springfield and Matt Szafranski of Springfield, reporting for the University of Connecticut (UConn) student law paper Pro-Se who was following Warren at her stops in Western Massachusetts on Saturday.

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SPRINGFIELD – U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is spending the weekend crisscrossing Western Massachusetts in advance of the state Democratic Convention June 2 at the MassMutual Center in Springfield.

“I want to you to that I’m out here working for this nomination,” Warren told a the Ward 5 Caucus Democratic Caucus gathered Saturday Morning at the Mill Pond Middle School, 91 Old Acre Road. “And if I am the nominee, I’ll be right back out here working just as hard.”

Warren, who rose to fame as both a Harvard Law professor and a consumer advocate, spoke with pride about creating a new federal consumer protection agency: United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“They said it couldn’t be done, that the lobbyists wouldn’t let you,” Warren said. “But how you do it is you get people behind you and you go around the opposition. What a positive story.”

Other Democrats in the he race are Middleton immigration lawyer Marisa DeFranco or Dover attorney James C. King.

The senate seat is currently held by Sen. Scott P. Brown, who defeated Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley in a 2010 special election following he death of longtime Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Coakley was criticized for not campaigning hard enough against the energetic Brown.

Warren later attended the Ward 4 Caucus at Highland House on Oak Grove Avenue in Springfield, then events in Amherst, Palmer and Ware.